Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 12:02:49 +1200 From: wheely <wheely@ihug.co.nz> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrade problems Message-ID: <199807240002.MAA29763@smtp1.ihug.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <19980723185234.55318@iii.co.uk> References: <35B75198.AD0EC9BB@yahoo-inc.com> <35B75198.AD0EC9BB@yahoo-inc.com>
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At 05:52 AM 24/07/98 , nik@iii.co.uk wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 08:07:04AM -0700, Brad Clawsie wrote:
>>
>> To do the upgrade, I ran /stand/sysinstall as root and went to the
>> "upgrade" option on the front page. I assumed that this would do a
>> rather painless upgrade for me, as the other tools in the sysinstall
>> program work very well for a simple-mindedapproach to maintenance.
>>
>> Before I even go on, was I completely off my rocker using this utility
>> for an OS upgrade?
It just occured to me too going from 2.2.5 -> 2.2.7
>> As it stands, I walked away for a while and when I came back the utility
>> told me it had ran out of swap space after it began to "pound on my
>> root" or something.
>
>I don't understand that bit. It's possible that either you haven't got
>enough swap space available, or that the size of your root ('/')
>filesystem is too small.
I'm not quite sure whats going on myself but it looks like it was
installing the bin files to / according to sysinstall. It stopped with
write errors after about 2 min - something like 6 - 10% into installing bin.
I just went back into the filesystem (via fixit) to see the damage and I my
/ partition is at 106%. It looks like my /var and /usr partitions are
untouched as they still have the same amount of free space. I have 32 MB
mounted on /
I mounted all my partitions at the disklabel editor.
I think its fixable so I aint going to wipe things yet. I can still get
into sysinstall etc. I used the 2.2.7 sysinstall (from floppy)
Any other questions on it I am happy to answer. Also if anyone as any
suggestions on a) finding where it has put the files on / (l can't find
them) and b) getting to work properly would be great :o)
wheely
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